Three Kingdoms: Sir, you love learning too much!

Chapter 6 He's So Reasonable, I'm Speechless
In August of the third year of Chuping, during the four-month fierce battle, Cao Cao continued to divide the Yellow Turban bandits, changing from the previous strategy of focusing on strikes to the military strategy of raiding, intercepting and accumulating victories in multiple battles.

Gradually defeated the fighting spirit of the Qingxu thieves. At the same time, he personally led the army to attack its food roads and ordnance supplies many times, mainly depleting its base, and achieved great results.

In the past four months, Cao Cao's soldiers and horses have fought more and more, and the army has become stronger and stronger.

Moreover, those rookies who have just entered the camp have gradually transformed into veterans after many battles. Those who have passed through the gate of life and death once, no matter their mentality or courage, have undergone earth-shaking changes.

As the autumn harvest approached, Cao Cao sent a message to these young and yellow scarves a few days ago that was enough to make them despair.

In the past few days, my Cao army has not attacked.

I am waiting for the grain harvest.

What are you waiting for?
Coupled with the fact that Cao Cao received soldiers along the way, gradually paid more attention to farming, and reused people from poor families and white backgrounds, Wei Cai opened the way.

Some Qing Xu commanders reacted suddenly.

His policy itself is anti-gentry, anti-Han old system? !
Isn't our rebellion against them? !
That is the friendly army!

What else is there to do! ?

So under the mentality of eager to surrender, such a reason took root in everyone's heart, and the leaders hit it off immediately, and gradually only one voice remained.

"surrender!"

end of August.

The collapsed Qingxu Yellow Turbans had millions of people, dragged their families and surrendered to Yanzhou, and let Cao Cao arrange them. At first, they didn't know how Cao Cao would treat them.

After all, with so many people, when the food is distributed after the autumn harvest, I am afraid that half of the whole territory will be lost, and military rations may also be used.

Many people are worried that the local gentry and local people in Yanzhou will oppose the surrender. After all, they are the source of troubles for Yanzhou.

What if you can't suppress the guilt of the local people?
But the result was unexpected.

Cao Cao took the decree to accept the surrender, which is enough to show that he had already thought about how to arrange the millions of young soldiers and refugees.

Of the millions of people, most of them are able to work, even women and children can do some handicraft work, so they won't be idle.

For the rest, 30 soldiers were assigned to the barracks, and the elite were selected to enter the camp, where they practiced and trained day and night, and were led by Cao Cao, while the rest belonged to the villagers, who lived on farming land.

As for placement, it is natural to go with the army.

Every time they go to a city in the future, they need to follow them, farm and work on the spot, or build walls and fortresses to build a stable funeral for the soldiers and horses who attack the city.

So they are both military and non-military.

Both native and non-local.

But definitely not refugees.

In order to encourage these people to work, Cao Cao also set up an incentive order. Hundreds of people who worked hard and worked hard were selected every year, and they were given a permanent place to live, rewarded with money and food, and donated land.

When these decrees come out, all the descendants will surrender immediately, not to mention that they have no choice at all, even if they have a choice!
There is no other reason. They were originally farmers. Before the incident, they were displaced because the fields were not harvested and they could not eat enough.

And because most of the local officials expropriated and extorted money violently, it made people's lives difficult.

Only when there is a backlog of resentment and resentment, it is for the sake of eating!

Now following Cao Cao, not only can you eat enough, but you can also get a place to live in a few years later, which is equivalent to changing your status from a bandit to a big man who is ready.

With such an opportunity, who wouldn't want to? !

Moreover, Cao Cao's use of troops did subdue them. Since Shou Zhang almost succeeded in ambushing Bao Xin, he never took any advantage.

Qingxu Huangjin was beaten so many times that he ran away with his head in his arms, and hid in the mountains.

In contrast, Cao Cao is no more famous than Gongsun Zan of Youzhou, nor Yuan Shao of Jizhou.

But his ability is admirable, and he is not on the same level as Liu Dai and others before him. He uses troops quickly and ruthlessly, and his thoughts are even more unpredictable, and his uses are endless.

Millions of people surrendered in Yanzhou, and the surrounding states and counties were no longer too vigilant and worried, but the princes of Xuzhou, Nanyang, Yangzhou and other places also had new troubles when they heard about this.

……

At this time, outside Juancheng in Dongjun.

Cao Cao and Bao Xin led the army back.

After entering the barracks, the two walked side by side towards the Suwei camp.

Cao Chun led the way ahead, and the whole group was full of joy and smiles.

"Yuncheng, Meng Yu is from the Guard Camp, a side branch of the Guo Clan in Yingchuan."

"In the personal guard camp, there is no one who is more elegant than him. He is as gentle as jade, and his heart is sincere. He can afford this praise."

"Besides, Meng Yu is eager to learn. In the past few months, I heard that although he did not go out with the army, in addition to being diligent in government affairs every day in the camp, he would continue to study hard when he returned to his tent at night."

"The books in his collection are all the money he has earned for many years, and he has been buying them from merchants. There are few young people with such a heart for virtuousness."

Cao Cao walked with his hands behind his back, showing a look of pride while talking, and he knew Guo Yi's past deeds and current qualities very well.

Bao Xin obviously also sensed his intention of showing off, and there was a trace of relief on his face, and he said softly: "Then, Meng De, tell me, what should I give him as a gift?"

"Well……"

Cao Cao thought for a moment and said, "In Juancheng, he doesn't have a house yet."

"I vacated an empty house in the inner city and gave it to him in the name of Yuncheng. I also gave him ten servants, twenty beauties, and sixteen guards to encourage him. This is considered preferential treatment."

"Well, that's fine too," Bao Xin'an smiled, nodded and said, "But it still can't be said that it's what he likes. Since this person is eager to learn, I give books as gifts, maybe he likes it more."

"It makes sense."

"Please."

Cao Cao led Bao Xin into the camp, and a gust of heat came from the pavement.

He raised his eyes and looked, the smile on his face froze immediately, and he blurted out an exclamation, "Young lady, Meng Yu?"

I saw Guo Yi put an iron felt on the open space in the camp, next to it was a hot iron stove.

At this moment, on the crimson stove, Guo Yi took off his shirt, showing a lean and sharp body, and he was concentrating on forging repeatedly.

Folding and forging a piece of blade-shaped iron repeatedly makes the pattern on this piece of fine iron more obvious, and the muscles of its upper body bulge and sweat profusely.

The heavy hammer doesn't seem to be heavy in his hands either.

He beat it repeatedly, but he always maintained a uniform force and controlled it freely.

His body has become oily, and the sweat dripping all over his body is wet.

Looking at the strong back, Bao Xin stood beside Cao Cao and asked a question.

"This is the gentle and refined Confucian scholar?"

Cao Cao smacked his lips, not knowing what to say for a while.

Guo Yi heard the movement, and suddenly stopped his movements and turned his head to look. After seeing Cao Cao, he put down the hammer and removed the headgear that was bound on his forehead.

With a sigh of relief, he cupped his fists and said, "Master."

"Your Majesty, I recently learned some forging methods, so I want to forge a weapon myself."

The corners of Cao Cao's mouth twitched slightly, and after moving his lips, he asked curiously: "You are a meritorious Cao, what do you want to learn forging iron?"

"That's right. I heard that my lord has won a great victory. In the future, the army will naturally have more soldiers and horses, so it is necessary to make more weapons. Therefore, in order to formulate a more superior method of forging iron, it will be able to get twice the result with half the effort."

"You must understand that if the craftsmanship can be improved by a small step, then it will be a big step forward for the total number! It can even reduce a lot of consumption."

"I……"

Cao Cao's eyes dimmed.

What he said made sense, I was speechless.

In order to make a decision, he struck the iron himself.

Don't tell me, your strong and brave body is also for thinking hard about military resources?
(End of this chapter)